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FanSnap Blog & Blog Archive & MLB Playoffs: Road to the World Series

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:19:50 -0700

Here are the MLB playoffs in one, handy calendar. Down below, there's ticket availability and ticket prices for the upcoming games as well as wins and losses for the ones that have been played.

FanSnap Blog & Blog Archive & NFL FanDemand Rankings - Week 2

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:53:59 -0700

The defending Super Bowl champion Steelers fell out of the #1 slot in the FanSnap FanDemand rankings this week as they travel to Chicago to take on the Bears. The Bears now sit atop the FanDemand rankings. Steelers and Bears fans will be vying for the hottest ticket in the NFL -- seats at Soldier Field on Sunday. (see the complete rankings below)

Is This Seat Taken? In Front Rows of New Ballparks, Not Yet - NYTimes.com

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:36:18 -0700

Is This Seat Taken? In Front Rows of New Ballparks, Not Yet

Many fans with tickets are trying to recoup what they can by selling some of them online well below face value. More than 10,000 tickets (about 20 percent of the ballpark) for the Yankees' game against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday were available, a handful for as little as $5, according to FanSnap.com, which scans the Web sites of five dozen ticket resellers.

"More season-ticket holders than ever before are selling into the market," said Michael Janes, FanSnap's chief executive. "Some people need to generate cash to pay the rent."

Tickets at FanSnap | Ticket Search

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:50:20 -0700

FanSnap is a search engine for tickets. Want to know what tickets will run you for a sports event, theater or concert? FanSnap tickets from all the leading providers in one place.

Tech Daily: Ticket resellers - a butt in every seat - Feb. 3, 2009

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:12:25 -0800

Ticket resellers: A butt in every seat

The secondary market is hot, but Web brokers are facing tough economic woes and competition.

YORK (Fortune) -- Don't call them scalpers - call them resellers instead. They are brokers that peddle hard-to-find tickets for live events such as concerts or sporting events, and they have gone legit thanks largely to the Internet.

MEDIA deluge - Social Media, MSM Engagement - FanSnap Launches Ticket Search Engine

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:11:25 -0700

Sites like Kayak (travel) and Indeed (jobs) have figured out how to present consumers with data from sites across the web in an efficient and user-friendly way. FanSnap is attempting to do the same for tickets to concerts, broadway, sports events and the like.

MEDIA deluge - Social Media, MSM Engagement - socialmedian Gains Momentum

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:55:41 -0700

All of this product innovation is paying off for socialmedian. The social news site has nearly doubled visits in each of the last two months.

MEDIA deluge - Social Media, MSM Engagement - SpinSpotter Crowdsources Media Bias Flagging

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:26:28 -0700

SpinSpotter launched this week at DEMOfall to tap the wisdom of the crowd to flag media bias in online coverage. SpinSpotter lets users see, share, and edit spin wherever they go online. To guide users, SpinSpotter lays out what it calls the "Seven Deadly Spins."

"Our main goal during this beta testing period is to recruit users who can go in and create spinmarkers so that the service's algorithm can become smarter about flagging key spin phrases etc. on its own, "SpinSpotter's PR said.

MEDIA deluge - Social Media, MSM Engagement

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:10:50 -0700

Twitter, the trend-maker that has seen better days now seems to have died a slow and painful death. Accompanying the empty feeling one gets on Twitter today, the inverse seems to be true on FriendFeed. There was some questions as to who would reap the spoils of Twitter's defeat. The victor seems to be FriendFeed... for now.